Azure Job Trends in the East of England

Microsoft Azure
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Azure skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 8 6
Rank change year-on-year +5 -2 0
Permanent jobs citing Azure 725 461 754
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 11.14% 13.77% 11.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 50.10% 51.91% 43.58%
Number of salaries quoted 385 344 664
10th Percentile £25,000 £26,250 £29,150
25th Percentile £33,750 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,750 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.18% +0.53% -5.00%
75th Percentile £71,250 £61,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £91,000 £72,125 £73,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,205 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.49% +3.68% -7.69%

All Cloud Computing Skills
East of England

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,447 888 1,730
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 22.22% 26.52% 25.94%
Number of salaries quoted 869 642 1,443
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £25,500
25th Percentile £33,500 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £92,598 £78,975 £75,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Azure relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Azure job vacancy trend in the East of England

Azure
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Azure.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Azure

Azure
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Azure in the East of England over the 6 months to 4 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Azure in the East of England

Azure
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the East of England region over the 6 months to 4 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Essex +2 174 £40,000 -11.11% 34
Hertfordshire -1 172 £60,000 +9.09% 64
Cambridgeshire -2 154 £53,000 +11.58% 43
Suffolk +34 102 £46,370 -7.26% 14
Norfolk +2 89 £55,000 +58.20% 21
Bedfordshire -2 32 £37,500 -29.25% 23
Azure
England

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 88 (12.14%) SharePoint
2 40 (5.52%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (1.79%) WordPress
4 8 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (0.83%) Apache Spark
5 6 (0.83%) CMS
6 3 (0.41%) SAS
7 2 (0.28%) Confluence
7 2 (0.28%) Luigi
8 1 (0.14%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.14%) Umbraco
Applications
1 73 (10.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.24%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.83%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.14%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (1.24%) Dynamics AX
1 9 (1.24%) Dynamics GP
2 7 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.69%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.28%) Infor M3
4 2 (0.28%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.28%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 173 (23.86%) Microsoft 365
2 131 (18.07%) Power Platform
3 120 (16.55%) Azure AI
4 104 (14.34%) Entra ID
5 89 (12.28%) AWS
6 72 (9.93%) Azure DevOps
7 44 (6.07%) OneDrive
8 39 (5.38%) PowerApps
9 35 (4.83%) Power Automate
10 33 (4.55%) Azure Logic Apps
11 32 (4.41%) Azure Data Factory
12 25 (3.45%) GitHub
13 22 (3.03%) GCP
14 20 (2.76%) SaaS
15 19 (2.62%) Adobe Creative Cloud
16 15 (2.07%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 15 (2.07%) GitHub Copilot
16 15 (2.07%) IaaS
17 14 (1.93%) Dynamics 365
18 12 (1.66%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 70 (9.66%) Firewall
2 42 (5.79%) DNS
2 42 (5.79%) VPN
3 28 (3.86%) DHCP
4 22 (3.03%) TCP/IP
5 17 (2.34%) WAN
6 14 (1.93%) Internet
6 14 (1.93%) LAN
7 12 (1.66%) VoIP
8 11 (1.52%) VLAN
8 11 (1.52%) Wireless
9 8 (1.10%) Network Security
10 7 (0.97%) Broadband
11 5 (0.69%) DMZ
11 5 (0.69%) MQTT
11 5 (0.69%) WLAN
12 4 (0.55%) Structured Cabling
13 3 (0.41%) SSL
14 2 (0.28%) L2TP
14 2 (0.28%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (16.00%) Power BI
2 103 (14.21%) Azure SQL Database
3 71 (9.79%) Tableau
4 56 (7.72%) MongoDB
5 30 (4.14%) SQL Server
6 29 (4.00%) Elasticsearch
7 13 (1.79%) Data Lake
8 11 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (0.97%) MySQL
10 6 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (0.83%) BigQuery
10 6 (0.83%) Looker
10 6 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
10 6 (0.83%) Snowflake Schema
11 4 (0.55%) Relational Database
12 3 (0.41%) Metadata
12 3 (0.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 2 (0.28%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.28%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 14 (1.93%) Git
1 14 (1.93%) JIRA
2 6 (0.83%) MLflow
3 5 (0.69%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.41%) Selenium
5 2 (0.28%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.28%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.28%) Yeoman
6 1 (0.14%) ERwin
6 1 (0.14%) git-flow
6 1 (0.14%) JMeter
6 1 (0.14%) Postman
6 1 (0.14%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.14%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.14%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 375 (51.72%) Social Skills
2 82 (11.31%) Finance
3 32 (4.41%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (3.03%) Law
5 18 (2.48%) Marketing
6 16 (2.21%) Documentation Skills
7 15 (2.07%) Public Sector
8 14 (1.93%) Organisational Skills
9 13 (1.79%) Legal
10 10 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (1.38%) Retail
11 8 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (0.83%) Advertising
12 6 (0.83%) Banking
12 6 (0.83%) Multimedia
13 4 (0.55%) Games
13 4 (0.55%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.55%) Music Industry
13 4 (0.55%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.41%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 170 (23.45%) Analyst
2 137 (18.90%) Developer
3 133 (18.34%) Junior
4 131 (18.07%) Junior Analyst
5 84 (11.59%) IT Support
6 75 (10.34%) .NET Developer
7 70 (9.66%) Security Analyst
8 66 (9.10%) Data Analyst
9 65 (8.97%) Senior
10 64 (8.83%) Cybersecurity Analyst
10 64 (8.83%) Junior Data Analyst
10 64 (8.83%) Junior Security Analyst
11 60 (8.28%) Ethical Hacker
12 46 (6.34%) IT Engineer
13 43 (5.93%) Support Engineer
14 37 (5.10%) Azure Engineer
15 34 (4.69%) Lead
15 34 (4.69%) Network Engineer
16 32 (4.41%) IT Support Engineer
17 31 (4.28%) Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (14.34%) .NET
2 93 (12.83%) .NET Core
3 75 (10.34%) CSS
4 73 (10.07%) ASP.NET
5 72 (9.93%) ASP.NET Core
6 66 (9.10%) HTML
7 40 (5.52%) RESTful
8 35 (4.83%) React
9 32 (4.41%) Entity Framework
10 30 (4.14%) ML.NET
10 30 (4.14%) Node.js
11 25 (3.45%) Blazor
12 22 (3.03%) HTML5 Canvas
12 22 (3.03%) JSON
13 21 (2.90%) AngularJS
14 19 (2.62%) Microsoft Graph
14 19 (2.62%) SPFx
14 19 (2.62%) Vue
15 18 (2.48%) ASP.NET Web API
16 15 (2.07%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 60 (8.28%) Cyberattack
2 32 (4.41%) Cloud Native
3 28 (3.86%) Driving Licence
4 19 (2.62%) Onboarding
5 16 (2.21%) Management Information System
5 16 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
6 13 (1.79%) Security Posture
7 12 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
8 10 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (1.10%) iPhone
9 8 (1.10%) Product Ownership
10 7 (0.97%) Clustering
10 7 (0.97%) Digital TV
10 7 (0.97%) Robotics
11 6 (0.83%) Cloud Security Posture
11 6 (0.83%) Cyber Threat
11 6 (0.83%) Data Structures
11 6 (0.83%) Low-Code
11 6 (0.83%) PKI
11 6 (0.83%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 129 (17.79%) Windows
2 82 (11.31%) Windows Server
3 18 (2.48%) Android
3 18 (2.48%) Windows Server 2019
4 17 (2.34%) Linux
5 11 (1.52%) Apple iOS
5 11 (1.52%) Mac OS
6 10 (1.38%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (0.69%) VMS
8 4 (0.55%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 213 (29.38%) Cybersecurity
2 183 (25.24%) AI
3 124 (17.10%) Mentoring
4 122 (16.83%) Agile
5 119 (16.41%) Business Intelligence
6 99 (13.66%) DevOps
7 79 (10.90%) Problem-Solving
8 77 (10.62%) Full-Stack Development
9 75 (10.34%) CI/CD
10 69 (9.52%) Continuous Improvement
11 60 (8.28%) Ethical Hacking
11 60 (8.28%) Machine Learning
12 39 (5.38%) Computer Science
13 37 (5.10%) Roadmaps
14 36 (4.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 35 (4.83%) Project Management
15 35 (4.83%) User Experience
16 34 (4.69%) ITIL
17 33 (4.55%) Multithreading
17 33 (4.55%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 233 (32.14%) SQL
2 136 (18.76%) C#
2 136 (18.76%) Python
3 65 (8.97%) JavaScript
4 56 (7.72%) PowerShell
5 41 (5.66%) TypeScript
6 25 (3.45%) PHP
7 15 (2.07%) Java
8 11 (1.52%) C++
9 8 (1.10%) T-SQL
10 5 (0.69%) R
11 4 (0.55%) Bash
12 3 (0.41%) Bicep
12 3 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (0.41%) Ruby
13 2 (0.28%) Scala
14 1 (0.14%) Go
14 1 (0.14%) Rust
14 1 (0.14%) VB
Qualifications
1 262 (36.14%) Azure Certification
2 71 (9.79%) CompTIA Security+
3 70 (9.66%) Degree
4 65 (8.97%) CompTIA CySA+
5 60 (8.28%) CEH
6 43 (5.93%) Cisco Certification
7 39 (5.38%) Microsoft Certification
8 37 (5.10%) CCNA
9 35 (4.83%) Security Cleared
10 29 (4.00%) Network+ Certification
11 27 (3.72%) Computer Science Degree
12 21 (2.90%) SC Cleared
13 9 (1.24%) CCNP
13 9 (1.24%) DV Cleared
14 8 (1.10%) AWS Certification
15 7 (0.97%) CISSP
16 6 (0.83%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 6 (0.83%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 6 (0.83%) DBS Check
17 4 (0.55%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (3.17%) QA
2 21 (2.90%) SLA
3 20 (2.76%) GDPR
4 16 (2.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (1.93%) NIST
6 12 (1.66%) Data Quality
7 11 (1.52%) GRC
8 8 (1.10%) Accessibility
8 8 (1.10%) NCSC
9 7 (0.97%) PCI DSS
10 6 (0.83%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 6 (0.83%) JSP 440
11 5 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 4 (0.55%) NIST 800
12 4 (0.55%) PMO
13 3 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
13 3 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 2 (0.28%) SOC 2
15 1 (0.14%) IFRS
15 1 (0.14%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 124 (17.10%) Active Directory
2 34 (4.69%) Hyper-V
3 29 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (2.90%) Docker
5 16 (2.21%) Virtual Desktop
6 10 (1.38%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.83%) vSphere
8 4 (0.55%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 4 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.14%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 50 (6.90%) Microsoft Intune
2 31 (4.28%) Kubernetes
3 21 (2.90%) Terraform
4 9 (1.24%) Ansible
5 4 (0.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 4 (0.55%) SolarWinds Orion
5 4 (0.55%) vCenter Server
6 3 (0.41%) Proxmox
6 3 (0.41%) ZABBIX
7 1 (0.14%) Nessus
7 1 (0.14%) SCCM
7 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.14%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 524 (72.28%) Microsoft
2 148 (20.41%) ForeScout
3 50 (6.90%) Cisco
4 34 (4.69%) VMware
5 26 (3.59%) Apple
6 19 (2.62%) Adobe
7 18 (2.48%) Google
8 17 (2.34%) Databricks
9 14 (1.93%) Meraki
10 13 (1.79%) ServiceNow
11 11 (1.52%) SolarWinds
12 10 (1.38%) Veeam
13 9 (1.24%) Epicor
13 9 (1.24%) Fortinet
14 8 (1.10%) Facebook
14 8 (1.10%) SAP
15 6 (0.83%) Aruba
15 6 (0.83%) Cloudera
15 6 (0.83%) Dell
15 6 (0.83%) Sophos